Method of preparing parquet flooring or wainscoting



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- H. W. ROMANOFF METHOD OF PREPARING PARQUET FLOORING OR WAINSCOTINGFiled Aug. 2, 1923 Q Q Q3 INVENT'OK."

ATTORNEK Patented Dec. 9, 1924.

UNITED STATES HIPPOLYTE W. ROMANOFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF PREPARING PARQUET FLOORING 0R WAINSCOTING.

Application filed August 2, 1923. Serial No. 655,375.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIPPOLYTE W. Ro- MANOFF, a citizen of Russia,residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of PreparingParquet Flooring or Wainscoting, of which the following is aspecification.

The present invention relates to improve ments in methods of preparingparquet flooring or wainscoting, etc., and it is the principal object ofmy invention to provide a novel method for cheaply and quickly preparingparquet flooring of any suitable material, size and shape.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a novel method oflaying parquet flooring consisting of an inexpensive base and a topplate afiixed to the base and out in such a manner that the corners ofthe flooring plates on one base strip snugly fit into the correspondingspaces between two plates on the adjoining strip.

These and other objects of my invention will become more fully known asthe description thereof proceeds, and will then be more specificallypointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Figure 1 shows a stencil in plan view adapted to be used in connectionwith the practical execution of my process.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of a bottom or base plate provided with anadhesive material or glue passed through the stencil.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary top plan view of a top plate adapted to beglued to said base, showing in dotted lines the out base plate.

Figure 5 is an end view thereof.

Figure 6 is a top plan view of a strip of the base carrying a part ofthe parquet flooring separated from its mate.

Figure 7 is a side elevation thereof.

The stencil 10, preferably of metal is pro vided with a plurality ofhexagonal openings 11 having bevelled edges.

A special brush machine is employed to apply glue through openings 11onto a base plate 12, so that the glued places have the shape asillustrated at 13. A top plate 1% is pressed by a special machine uponthe flooring, and base plate 12 and top plate 14:

are then cut, the former into strips 16 and the latter into blocks 15.The strips 16 provide supports to which the parquet flooring 14.- isadhering in the manner best illustrated in'Figure 6, allowing anailing'of-thestrips 16 tothe fioor'or Wainscot as at 17 with the.nextfstrip in such aproximity that the apexes of the flooring squares14 of one row engage the triangular space between two squares of theotherrow.

From the above description the practical execution of my novel processor method will be quite clear.

The base plate 12 prepared as described presents a series of spacedadhesive areas, and following the application of the top plate 14thereto, a connection between such bottom plate and top plate will besecured through these adhesive areas. The top plate and bottom plate arethen independently out, the top plate being divided along uniformlongitudinal and transverse divisions to form separate, and in theinstance shown, rectangular blocks 15. The bottom plate is cut on linessubstantially diagonal to the cuts of the top plate, and these diagonalcuts of the bottom plate are such as to leave strips 16 on which appearthe spaced adhesive areas 13, those portions of the bottom plate betweenthe margins of'the adhesive areas thus defined being entirely removed.When completed, the respective blocks of the top plate will be supportedon diagonally arranged bottom strips, any one such strip having arrangedthereon a series of immediately adjacent blocks having their diagonalsaligned longitudinally of the strip. Thus the width of the stripunderlying the meeting points of adjacent blocks presents an areabetween and wholly free of the meeting edges of adjacent blocks tofacilitate the insertion of the securing nails in applying the flooring.The securing means indicated at 17 will thus effectively secure theflooring in place without in any way passing through the flooringsection proper, that is, the upper plate 14. Furthermore, by thisarrangement, the interfitting of the next set of blocks will cause saidblocks to overlie and conceal the securing means 17 of the previous set.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is 1. A method of preparing parquet flooringor wainscoting consisting in providing a base plate with glue engaging atop plate therewith, cutting each plate separately, and securing saidout base plate to a floor in such a manner that an uninterrupted parquetfloor is formed by the top plate.

2. A method of preparing parquet flooring or wainscoting conslsting inpressing glue through a stencil With hexagonal openlngs against a baseplate, placing a top plate on said glued plate, cutting both plates intoa plurality of sections of desired shapes 3. A method of preparingparquet flooring or Wainscoting consisting in brushing glue through astencil having a plurality of openings provided With bevelled edges upona'base plate, placing a top plate on said base plate, and cutting bothplates into a plurality of parts.

4:. A method of preparing parquet flooring, consisting in providing abase and forming a plurality of independent adhesive areas on said base,securing a parquet floor' ing section to the adhesive areas of the baseby pressure, dividing the parquet flooring section into blocks ofdesired outline, dividing the base into strips, each including aplurality of suchadhesive areas and thereby supporting a plurality ofblocks of the flooring section.

In testimony whereof I have aflixedmy signature.

.HIPPOLYTE W. ROMANQFF.

